Major Additions - AME 2.5 - Media Embedding for posts, sigs, vm's, groups and blogs

From the makers of the letters O and Yea comes the hottest 'must have mod' of the season: AME 2.5 - The Return of The Hot Mama.

Thanks everyone for making AME 2.5 Mod of the Month

AME is the multi award winning modification that smartly scans new and edited posts for URLs from a customisable variety of web sites (i.e. YouTube or Amazon or about 200 others). If it finds a match, AME will 'transform' the URL into inline embedded media without your users ever having to even think about it.

It was important for me to create a system that did not need updating (and subsequent reinstalling) every time one of the sites it supported decided to change the way it displayed its media (which is all the fricken time). Therefore I built a system in which the 'definitions' for each site could be imported, exported, tweaked and shared on a whim. This way, you only have to import the definitions that you want. It also allows the vB community to get creative and share definitions that I wouldn't of thought of!

Which sites are supported?

Included in the default installation is YouTube and Amazon. At time of posting this, I believe that there are over 180 sites supported that have been created by the vBulletin community. These range from sites that stream videos to Amazon referral links to locally hosted music and video files.

Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.

For a total list of features and an FAQ, see click here.
For a post on troubleshooting, click here.

Though not tested on any version of vBulletin lower than 3.7.4, in theory it should work on versions 3.5 and higher (just dont quote this bit!).

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi who gives great support on this mod and has created over 160 definitions for this system alone!


Installation/Upgrade

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product-ame.xml file into your product manager (if upgrading, choose 'yes' to overwrite previous installation).
• After installation, make sure that the system is on (admincp->AME CP->Settings)
• Then you may want to try to rebuild old URLs via the tools option.

Change Log

• 20/1/09 - Uploaded to vb.org
• 22/1/09 - v. 2.5.2. Adresses a couple minor issues and character sets
• 23/1/09 - v. 2.5.3 minor update: Fixed ksort error on import and nomedia display
• 3/2/09 - v. 2.5.4 minor update to address rare bug with some page titles
• 3/7/09 - v.2.5.5 minor updates to address rare bug editing media with brackets in name
• 9/12/09 - v.2.5.6 minor updates youtubes validation process, a ccurl bug and rebuild not using the date like a good girl

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[Forensic]

Originally Posted by Forensic

Probably a simple question but the answer escapes me.

Boy do I feel dumb..

I hate it when someone asks a question, figures it out and fails to say how so I'll post it no matter how simple it ended up being.
Style Manager | AME_Container
Just wrap the folowing in a font tag.
$ameinfo[title] to this <font color="white">$ameinfo[title]</font>

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by Forensic

Boy do I feel dumb..

I hate it when someone asks a question, figures it out and fails to say how so I'll post it no matter how simple it ended up being.
Style Manager | AME_Container
Just wrap the folowing in a font tag.
$ameinfo[title] to this <font color="white">$ameinfo[title]</font>

Things are only simple to the ones that can figure them out. Not all is this simple for and posting it makes it good for many.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by LockeAG

I have a BUG , I don't know if its only in my board , But when I try to EDIT(AJAX) any POST with the AMO Plugin Active I get stuck and nothing happen only keeps loading...

By the way this plugin , even with their small issues is a great WORK.. thanks..

I can't really say that I have ever had this problem or that it has ever been reported before. Saying that, if you are using the extract abilities of this system (which most are), then understand that when posts are edited or created, many definitions will actually cause AME to pull the destination URL's web page to extract information out of it (i.e. page titles). If you have several AME links in a post, that meas that AME has to pull several pages from the web for this information. If the destination page(s) is/are unresponsive or slow, then it will slow down saving the post.

Anyhoo, just thought I would give you a bit of background on it. It only happens when saving a post and you can run AME without extraction (thought some definitions require it). However its rarely a problem for users.

HTHs

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by fxlr8

Same exact problem here.

Again, I have just tried to do this several different ways on my local site and the only time it removed AME codes was when the setting: Remove [ame] codes was Yes. That is by design so you can remove AME if you ever chose to.

HTHs

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Bisha

On new/edited it work!

Yup, thats by design. You will need to use the admincp->ame cp->tools->rebuild options to convert old posts.

HTHs

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by iardon

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. The reason I asked is some of my users might be used to the old vb way and still use it with your mod. Would that cause any issues?

In theory it should be ok, however I havent tested it

[AnthonyLC]

I love this mod. Thanks bro

[LockeAG]

I can't really say that I have ever had this problem or that it has ever been reported before. Saying that, if you are using the extract abilities of this system (which most are), then understand that when posts are edited or created, many definitions will actually cause AME to pull the destination URL's web page to extract information out of it (i.e. page titles). If you have several AME links in a post, that meas that AME has to pull several pages from the web for this information. If the destination page(s) is/are unresponsive or slow, then it will slow down saving the post.

Anyhoo, just thought I would give you a bit of background on it. It only happens when saving a post and you can run AME without extraction (thought some definitions require it). However its rarely a problem for users.

HTHs

ok but this problem is in all the Board... not only the threads with videos....

maybe is some java problem ....

I will check all my script and plugins..


thanks

see'a

[mattysheff]

I've got the same problem with you tube videos not embedding.

Ive tried http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQx6b-6kYMQ

Its not changing the tags as they still show as [url] if I manuaaly change it to [ame] then the video embeds fine.

[optrex]

Add me to the list - same issue as matty above